Is flag burning illegal in Saudi Arabia?
Criminal offense
Disrespecting the Saudi flag, considered blasphemy, is prohibited.
Saudi Arabia is one of 53 countries classified “Criminal offense” for flag desecration — 79% of the 67 with data. (Also searched as flag burning.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Flag desecration
- Last checked
- 7 July 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- United Arab Emirates
- Criminal offense UAE punishes flag desecration with 10-25 years prison and fines up to 500,000 dirhams.
- Israel
- Criminal offense Deliberately burning an Israeli flag is illegal and punishable by up to three years imprisonment.
- Egypt
- Criminal offense Flag desecration has been illegal in Egypt since 2014 with fines up to 30,000 pounds.
- Iran
- Criminal offense Desecration of the Iranian national flag is a crime.
- Turkey
- Criminal offense Turkey forbids burning any nation's flag with prison sentences ranging from 3 months to 3 years.
- Ethiopia
- Criminal offense The Ethiopian federal flag proclamation prohibits desecration with fines or imprisonment up to three years for first offense.
Other laws in Saudi Arabia
- Blasphemy Laws
- Death penalty possible
- Apostasy Laws
- Death penalty possible
- Holocaust Denial
- No specific law
- Conversion Therapy
- No ban
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